People

Andrea Zanella

Biography

Andrea Zanella is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padova (ITALY). He received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 1998, from the same University, and the PhD degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, in 2002. Before that, he spent nine months as visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with Prof. Mario Gerla on Wireless Networks and Wireless Access to Internet.

Research

Andrea Zanella is with the SIGNET research group. His major research interest is in the field of protocol design and performance evaluation of WPANs, MANETs, VANETs and WSNs. In particular, he has large expertise in the performance analysis and modeling of Bluetooth and WiFi systems. He his IEEE member and reviewer for several IEEE journals and international conferences in the ICT area. Furthermore, he is one of the main promoter and Technical Program Chair of the Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN) and TPC member of other international conferences (Globecom, WPMC, EWSN).